[Campaigns-l] Re: Campaigns-l Digest, Vol 1, Issue 12

[Michael Reitz]

Neutrality is toughest position to hold and yet remain active.
   
  michaelcaspergeorge at yahoo.com

Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
  Maurice McGinley (Ovis) wrote:
>> On 7/6/06, Jimmy Wales wrote:
>> > 2. Issues - neutral (VERY IMPORTANT!!!) presentations of various
>> > campaign issues, the point here is to give voters a place to come for
>> > basic information about active issues.
> 
> Other posts have suggested:
> 1. neutrality is difficulty and unlikely, and
> 2. a registration requirement may be inevitable.
> 
> I agree.

I have a lot of experience with wikis, and people who are new to wikis
always think that neutrality is difficult and unlikely (but usually, it
is not as hard as people think), and people always think that a
registration requirement is inevitable (but usually, it is not).

> Further, I would like to see this used as a forum for policy
> development, where known agents with public agendas and agreed goals
> discuss and develop policy in the sunlight. ...An open-source policy
> incubator. The challenge will be to allow as many as possible to
> participate while maintaining the quality of debate.

This is what wikis are really good at.

--Jimbo

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